Even the ex CEO of Apple admited that motorola was a mistake.

[ElPolloDiabl]

So how come Apple didn't fracture into two camps x86 and PPC? I suppose the Apple user is a different beast to an Amiga user.

On another topic I don't think Apple even makes and effort to escape from it's delicate, sanitary institution. I'm glad they are picking up market share, but it is probably from disenchanted wintel users.
If you look for some programming options on Apple you will find empty forums and clueless people on the other end of a Apple store phone.
Okay so it's not the case with the iphone at least.
Apple gaining market share is the classic saying "Out of the frying pan into the fire."

[hishamk]

Ooh lordy, now I almost regret not reading the interview. This is comedy gold. (And as an aside, even on the Mac, which didn't have any video hardware besides a simple framebuffer, it didn't take the whole power of the processor to do graphics; the thing would've been completely unusable if it had.) Guy doesn't have a clue.

It just makes one wonder. Why would Jobs hire a sugared-water company CEO? Was there some hidden genius logic in that he must be brilliant in selling a 90-year old sugared-water brand around the world, so he must have the mad skillz to sell computers around the world?

I mean, I would think Sculley's contacts would be 50% bottling plants around the world, cola nut growers, 40% marketing/branding people and ad agencies, and perhaps 10% the other non-food industry contacts.

How did his skills/experience fit into Apple's plan of dominating the world of personal computers?

Sculley (to board): Sure, yeah, I know this guy who has a bottling plant in Argentina, I could tell him to mold the casings for us. I'm sure we could use bottle crate plastic for the new models. We could probably even tell him to use the same colors as for the crates. I hear in Argentina they're baby blue crates.

Years later Jobs brings out the baby blue iMac; thanks to Sculley

[lsmart]

So how come Apple didn't fracture into two camps

They did twice: first NeXT, later BeOS. But only the main branch survived. Well ... you could argue that NeXT survived and BeOS isn´t entirely dead.

If you look for some programming options on Apple you will find empty forums and clueless people on the other end of a Apple store phone.

You asked a sales guy about programming? There are a lot of develloper resouces for Mac and iPhone. You can easily get advice on the mailing lists (even sometimes stuff that is still under NDA, but don´t count on that). Remember though that Apples platform isn´t about choice: Cocoa is king for them. Oh, and et´s hope they don´t sue MUI for patent infringement.